Letter: Trump poses threat to our liberty

Wednesday

Aug 1, 2018 at 2:14 PM

To the editor:

“What you are seeing and what you are reading is not what’s happening” – a quote from President Trump in a speech before the VFW on July 24. His quote, pertaining to the media, is frighteningly similar to a quote from George Orwell’s novel, “1984” in which a totalitarian government instructs the people, “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.”

Remember the humiliating joint press conference with Russian President Putin following the Helsinki “summit”? Remember when the correspondent asked President Putin if he had wanted Trump to win the Presidency in 2016; and, that Putin replied, “yes”? Well, the White House has deleted that question and answer from the official transcripts of the press conference.

Now, the White House has stated that Trump will break from about 50 years of tradition and will no longer inform the public of his telephone conversations with foreign leaders. I find this especially disturbing in view of his close relationships with murderous dictators around the world and his alienation of our traditional friends and allies.

Trump’s distractions and his litany of lies to the American people are unprecedented and intolerable!

As Trump continues along his Orwellian journey, it is time we become very concerned about the threat he poses to our liberty.

Hank Corbett,

Jacksonville

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